Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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I've been reading Nikita Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
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There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.
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What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
